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- Complete American Pickup Truck Sales Figures - 2006 Year End
U.S. pickup truck sales slid 10% in 2006 as the vast majority of truck nameplates posted measurable year-over-year sales decreases. The Ford F-Series continued to lead the way, but Ford lost 105,000 F-Series sales compared with 2005. • Complete...
- Complete American Pickup Truck Sales Figures - 2007 Year End
2007 was the Toyota Tundra's most successful year ever, but in no wise was 2007 the year of the pickup truck, not in the home of the pickup truck. In the United States, sales of all but three trucks declined. Two of the pickups that produced improved...
- Niche Suv & Truck Sales In The Usa - May 2010
A motion to consider: Whereas The Good Car Guy, he of GoodCarBadCar.net, feels strongly that the Chevrolet Avalanche is one of the most intelligently-designed trucks on the market today, and whereas The Good Car Guy has placed the Chevrolet Avalanche...
- Top 5 Best-selling Trucks In America (november 2009)
If only GMC Sierra sales were a little stronger than 8,371, General Motors would have been able to push their truck sales past the planet's dominant pickup family at the end of November. Alas. What's more surprising than the steady full-size truck...
- The Bad 8 Supersize - Part Iii
FORD EXPLORER SPORT TRAC Interesting, you might find, to discover that a vehicle with a similar premise finds itself in The Good 12 Supersize and yet this, the Ford Explorer Sport Trac, sits in the dungeon. Do recall, however, that the Chevy Avalanche...
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THE GOOD 12 SUPERSIZE v2.0 - PART III
CHEVROLET AVALANCHE
Don't worry. You're not alone. There are other people buying vehicles with V8 engines. Moreover, people are still buying jumbo SUVs and full-size trucks. In terms of your unfounded guilt for considering the Chevrolet Avalanche, keep this fact in mind: plenty of others can't decide between a jumbo SUV and a full-size truck, either. They, too, settle on the Chevavalanche.
With political leaders meeting at the Copenhagen climate summit, it's not hard to see why you'd struggle with the thought of a multi-ton truck with SUVesque people carrying capaciousness. One five-passenger car plus a regular pickup truck would be a whole lot more inefficient. Besides, there's joy to be had with a Chevrolet Avalanche; the kind of joy that stems from dropping a midgate and shoving lumber into the cabin or raising the midgate and shutting the outside world.... out.
Chevrolet Avalanches are the pickup trucks for regular folk, the kind of guy (or gal) who almost needs a truck and surely can't survive with just a car. An Avalanche is a truck for the multitasker, a pickup for the family man, the SUV for the go-to girl.
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Engines: 320 horsepower; 335 lb-ft of torque from a 5.3L V8
Base USD Price: $35,725
Cargo Capacity: 45.5 cubic feet of exterior cargo volume
Maximum Towing Capability: 5,100-5,400 pounds
City Mileage: 15 mpg
Tier Two: You may've heard of another couple trucks manufactured by General Motors: the Silverado and Sierra? It's safe to say an Avalanche is sold once for every thirty Silverado/Sierra pickups. If this makes you think the Avalanche isn't good enough for anybody else so therefore won't be good enough for you, fuhgeddaboudit. Avalanche customers are opting into something very specific. Silverados and Sierras go out to all kinds of different folk looking for all kinds of different truck.
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- Complete American Pickup Truck Sales Figures - 2006 Year End
U.S. pickup truck sales slid 10% in 2006 as the vast majority of truck nameplates posted measurable year-over-year sales decreases. The Ford F-Series continued to lead the way, but Ford lost 105,000 F-Series sales compared with 2005. • Complete...
- Complete American Pickup Truck Sales Figures - 2007 Year End
2007 was the Toyota Tundra's most successful year ever, but in no wise was 2007 the year of the pickup truck, not in the home of the pickup truck. In the United States, sales of all but three trucks declined. Two of the pickups that produced improved...
- Niche Suv & Truck Sales In The Usa - May 2010
A motion to consider: Whereas The Good Car Guy, he of GoodCarBadCar.net, feels strongly that the Chevrolet Avalanche is one of the most intelligently-designed trucks on the market today, and whereas The Good Car Guy has placed the Chevrolet Avalanche...
- Top 5 Best-selling Trucks In America (november 2009)
If only GMC Sierra sales were a little stronger than 8,371, General Motors would have been able to push their truck sales past the planet's dominant pickup family at the end of November. Alas. What's more surprising than the steady full-size truck...
- The Bad 8 Supersize - Part Iii
FORD EXPLORER SPORT TRAC Interesting, you might find, to discover that a vehicle with a similar premise finds itself in The Good 12 Supersize and yet this, the Ford Explorer Sport Trac, sits in the dungeon. Do recall, however, that the Chevy Avalanche...